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The pocket rule is nice too..


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Yes, it's a 6 inch steel rule with a couple of wooden things underneath it.


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I think I know what it does, but had to look up the correct name - is it a fire piston?

Or, as above, the first diesel?



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Originally Posted by Scott_Thornley
I think I know what it does, but had to look up the correct name - is it a fire piston?

Or, as above, the first diesel?


Nope. But it might be possible to be used as one.

Hint...The long piece of wood on the bottom has a polished, tapered hole the length of it and the dowel on the handle is not long enough to extend all the way through the hole...


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It’s a pop gun. I have one that my grandfather made for my father. You put a Chinaberry into the tapered bore and push it a couple of inches down the bore. Then you take another chinaberry, put it in the bore and the you quickly push the plunger down the bore and, with a pop, it sends the first chinaberry at your “enemy”.

The barrel of mine is octagonal and made of oak and was probably made around 1925 +/-. Somewhere along the way, the plunger has been lost.

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Originally Posted by navlav8r
It’s a pop gun. I have one that my grandfather made for my father. You put a Chinaberry into the tapered bore and push it a couple of inches down the bore. Then you take another chinaberry, put it in the bore and the you quickly push the plunger down the bore and, with a pop, it sends the first chinaberry at your “enemy”.

The barrel of mine is octagonal and made of oak and was probably made around 1925 +/-. Somewhere along the way, the plunger has been lost.


Chinaberry gun! You nailed it! My Grandfather made it for me probably about 1955. Twin Brother 348srfun had one too. We stayed in trouble with these things. The bore is polished like a mirror and has a choke at one end. I made the replacement plunger this afternoon and it still works....Got to find some chinaberries....


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Originally Posted by Scott_Thornley
I think I know what it does, but had to look up the correct name - is it a fire piston?



That's what I was thinking too..


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Originally Posted by OldmanoftheSea
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I think I know what it does, but had to look up the correct name - is it a fire piston?



That's what I was thinking too..


I'm going to try that out tomorrow. Works the same way and generates a good bit of pressure. Might work!

We used to put one chinaberry in the tube push it as far as we could with the plunger and then load the second chinaberry behind it and give the handle a quick push. It would shoot the first one out with a pop and leave the second in the barrel ready for the next berry to be loaded behind it.


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The bore of mine was polished and waxed.


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Chinaberries must not have existed in my part of the woods growing up.

Can you put someone's eye out with it.

If so, then it's a cool toy!


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